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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 228, 28 September 1935, Page 15

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THE FEILDING SALE. HIGH PRICES FOR BEEF. [ Per Press Association. ] FEILDING, Sept. 27. Record prices for fat cattle, ox going to 30s, and cow to almost the same price per lOOlbs., were realised at today’s Feilding sale. Dairy cattle were up 30s a head on the previous level. There was a dull sale for store sheep, but a firm sale for fat sheep. Fat Sheep.—Primo heavy hoggels, woolly, 28s; prime lighter, to 25s 4d; prime shorn, average, 21s to 22s 6<l; inferior lines 16s .10'1; prime heavy woolled ewes, 235; prime lighter, to 20s 3d; shorn. 16s Io 18s; light, from Ils Gd; blackfaces, l.'s 4d; prime heavy wethers, to 27s 6d; light, to 23s 9d; inferior, 17s 6d. Store Sheep.—Ewe hoggets, good quality, 26s Id to 295; fair, 21s 6d to 23s 8d; wether hoggets, good skins, to 22s 9d; average about 18s 8d; poorer, from 15s; ewes with lambs, all courited, 12s 3d to 13s Gd; ewes with lambs. 23s 9d. Dairy Cattle.—Springing heifers, very good line, £6 2s 6d to £8 12s Gd; good condition, £5 5s to £6 10s; late cal vers, from £3 5s to £5 ss; springing cows, forward condition, £5 5s to £6 ss; others, £3 10s to £5; heifers in milk, good, £6 12s 6d to £8; others, £2 15s to £3 10s; cows in milk, good quality, to £4 10s; others, from £2 10s. Fat Cattle.—Prime very heavy P.A. Shorthorn bullocks, £lO 2s to £l2 2s Gd; very heavy prime Shorthorn -cross cows* £l2; prime P.A. cows, £7 4s 6d to £8 17s 6d; light ditto, £5 15s; Here ford cows, p riffle, £6 10s to £7 3s; P.A. heifers, prime heavy, £8 2s 6d; others, good weight, £7 3s to £7 16s; Shorthorn heifers, £5 5s to £7 ss; mixed steers, £6 10s; dairy bred cows, to £5 17s 6d. Store Cattle.—P.A. cows, £4 6s; P.A Hereford cross steers, £6 6s; Holstein cows, £2 ss; heifers, £2 10s; P.A yearling steers, £3 10s; yearling Jersey heifers, forward condition, £2 4s to £3 ss; others, heifers, 22s 6d to £2 3s; forward cows, to £2 6s; boners, 20s to